Mark Ballard
Capitol News Bureau Editor at The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Editor of The Advocate Capitol news bureau covering Louisiana government and politics
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5 days ago |
nola.com | Mark Ballard
WASHINGTON — The monthslong effort to reduce Medicaid spending enough to help offset costs of the single bill that includes President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda comes to a head Tuesday when the House committee charged with finding most of those spending reductions starts marking up its portion of the “one, big, beautiful bill.” Both the president and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Benton, say they don’t want to slash Medicaid enrollments or services for the 83 million low-income Americans on...
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6 days ago |
nola.com | Mark Ballard
WASHINGTON – The day after telling a House subcommittee that the Federal Emergency Management Agency should not be eliminated, Cam Hamilton, FEMA’s acting head, was fired. Politico E&E, a specialty trade publication, first reported that Hamilton was brought to the Department of Homeland Security headquarters Thursday and let go. A FEMA spokesperson confirmed the departure. Assistant Secretary David Richardson will replace Hamilton.
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1 week ago |
theadvocate.com | Mark Ballard
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House approved legislation Thursday that would rename after 400 years the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. On a vote of 211-206, the House forwarded the resolution by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, to the Senate for consideration. The vote was along party lines with the exception of Rep. Don Bacon, R-Nebraska, who joined the Democrats in opposition. Baton Rouge Democratic Rep. Cleo Fields voted against renaming the gulf. Rep.
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1 week ago |
theadvocate.com | Mark Ballard
WASHINGTON — Millions of people could be thrown off Medicaid if some of the top options being considered in Congress become law, according to estimates released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Ideas like requiring states to pay more for the Medicaid expansion from 2016 or axing hospital provider fees would lead to widespread loss of health care for many low-income people in states like Louisiana, the analysis found.
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1 week ago |
theadvocate.com | Mark Ballard
WASHINGTON – The U.S. House approved legislation Thursday that would rename after 400 years the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. “The House voted to permanently rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Benton. “This is one of the many steps House Republicans are taking to codify President Trump’s agenda into law, and there is much more to come.” On a vote of 211-206, the House forwarded the resolution by Rep.
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US Senate just confirmed Jerry Edwards Jr. to the federal trial bench in Alexandria. Senate now is considering confirmation of Brandon Long for the federal bench in New Orleans,
U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson, R-Benton, announced and now becomes the second Louisiana congressman to seek Speaker of the House, the top job in what has become a dysfunctional chamber and is the third in the presidential succession. https://t.co/UKqsRTzSEq
Leader Steve Scalise voted for Jim Jordan to be the next speaker as did Congresswoman Letlow, and La Reps Graves, Higgins, and Johnson. Voting still going on but Jordan, the Ohio conservative doesn’t have enough to win on the first ballot. Scalise has 6 votes, so far